The Boke of Saint Albans
Author: Juliana Berners
Publisher:
Published: 1881
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13:
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St. Albans
Author: Claire Serant
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467104000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs colonial New Yorkers expanded their housing and employment options beyond Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, southeast Queens became a destination for Dutch and English families who wanted more land and a better life. Beyond the confines of the village of Jamaica in Queens emerged a community of strivers - farmers and entrepreneurs - who founded St. Albans in 1899. A housing boom in the 1920s and 1930s in Queens brought more residents with European heritage to St. Albans. Yankee slugger Babe Ruth spent so much time at the St. Albans Golf and Country Club that many area residents thought he lived there. Meanwhile, a racial covenant in Addisleigh Park, an affluent section of St. Albans, threatened to keep African Americans out of the neighborhood until the federal government outlawed the practice in 1948. Over time, many African American jazz musicians and entertainers along with middle- and working-class families have called St. Albans home. Today, St. Albans is a predominantly middle-class African American and Caribbean American neighborhood that continues to embrace its ambitious past through strong connections to business, civic, political, and religious groups.
The St Albans Psalter
Author: Jane Geddes
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe St Albans Psalter, made in the 1130s, is one of the great monuments of English Romanesque painting and has survived the disasters of religious upheaval and war in pristine condition. The sequence of forty full-page miniatures illustrating the Life of Christ establishes their artist, the so-called Alexis Master, as one of the most influential painters in early twelfth-century England. It includes 215 initials illustrating the psalms in a vigorously literal way. Their inventiveness and charm belie the complex theological and personal messages which they convey. This new book by Dr. Jane Geddes is the first to reproduce so much of the psalter in color, but it also fully integrates the psalter's contents into the historical context of its probable patron, Abbot Geoffrey of St Albans and its recipient, the Anglo-Saxon hermitess Christina of Markyate. Using a record of Christina's life, written by a St Albans monk, the book examines in depth every aspect of the psalter, tying it in closely to the lives of Christina of Markyate and Abbot Geoffrey. Through her close analysis, Geddes provides a profound insight into female literacy, Anglo-Norman relations, the organization of England's premier scriptorium, monk-nun relations and the emerging Anglo-Norman language. This new book demonstrates the significance of the St Albans Psalter, which in social terms is as important as the Bayeux Tapestry, crystallising the artistic, spiritual and emotional integration of Anglo-Saxons and Normans.
The St. Albans Raid
Author: Michelle Arnosky Sherburne
Publisher: Civil War
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781626196292
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A Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle
Author: Juliana Berners
Publisher:
Published: 1885
Total Pages: 54
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Author: Kristen M. Collins
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1606061453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition Canterbury and St. Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from September 20, 2013, to February 2, 2014"--Colophon.
St. Albans
Author: L. Louise Haynes
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2010-10-18
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1439638837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany years after Jesse Welden became the first permanent settler in St. Albans, the town was the site of the northernmost raid by Confederate Civil War soldiers in 1864. St. Albans went on to earn fame as the Railroad City. Over the years, the commercial base in St. Albans grew, many churches and schools were founded, and there was a sharp increase in population. Because of these many changes, St. Albans transformed from an agricultural community dependent upon Lake Champlain for transportation to the seat of Franklin County.
St Albans
Author: Sue Mann
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 2016-10-01
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1909291811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch has been written about the men who left to fight in the First World War but what was life really like for those left behind on the Home Front? A bustling market town profoundly touched by the war, St Albans is the perfect place of which to ask this question, thanks in part to the survival of exceptionally rich archives of records from the period. This book explores the immediate challenges the townspeople faced during the war as well as the longer-term effects on the city. When the war finally ended, could life ever return to 'normal' as some 3,000 soldiers returned home?
The Battles of St Albans
Author: Peter Burley
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-09-09
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1473819032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSt Albans is unique in having been the site of two pivotal battles during the Wars of the Roses, yet this is the first book-length account to have been published. It offers a gripping account of the fighting, and of the politics and intrigue that led to it, and it incorporates the results of the latest research. The authors also plot the events of over 500 years ago onto the twenty-first century landscape of St Albans so that the visitor can retrace the course of each battle on the present-day ground.
Alban and St Albans: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology: v. 24
Author: Philip Lindley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-11-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1040290876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of eighteen papers presented at a conference that was held at the Hatfield Campus of the University of Hertfordshire with 122 members and guests from the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Germany and Norway were present. The papers are on the research on various aspects of the art and architecture of the abbey, at St Albans and provides an ideal forum for bringing together many aspects of the abbey’s history.
